BREVITIES

Evening Star, Issue 14184, 8 October 1909, Page 8

BREVITIES

The great fir© at Chicago occurred on October 8, 1871.-

The Court of Appeal yesterday reserved judgment in the case of Reynolds v. the Attorney-General. rhe slips in the Monawatu Gorge have been cleared away, and the trains are running as usual. . Coffee was first grown in Arabia early in the fifteenth century, but was not imported into End and until about 1,650. One ounce of eggs produces 39,000 silkworms, which consume yearly one ton of mulberry leaves, and yield silk worth £B. In many factories in America they have only four holidays a, year. They.work nine hours a day, and eight hours on Saturday. The total area of Africa is estimated at about 11,500,000 square miles, of which °wns 2,713,910 square miles. Eight hundred and thirty-seven Diousand one hundred people were employed in the coal trade in the United Kingdom in 1905. In the Gore Court yesterday Michael Flanagan, an old man, was committed for trial on a charge of assault on a girl under fifteen yeans of age. Wellington City Council passed a resolution deprecating the Salvation Army’s proposal to establish a prison-gate home at Island Bay, and recommending that it be removed to the country. Tim value of the exports from the Dominion for the six months ended September 30 was £7,859,253. Compared with the corresponding six months of last year, this represents an increase of £1,833,373. .. T , he concerning the death of the little girl Leese was concluded at Auckland yesterday. The jury returned a verdiet That death was due bo bacterial poisomng, the result of eating foodstuffs. There was nothing to show that it was the resu.t of eating fruit, though there were strong suspicions in that direction.”

From Her Viewpoint.—ptont ladv (in theatre, to youth who has asked her to remove her hat): “ Sit still. Tlie play isn’t fit for a boy like you to see!”